The question was recently asked about turning off images in Mozilla
...well, how about the ultimate in no-images browsing?

I've compiled ELinks, suitable for running in Puppy.
Just download the attachment and expand the tarball.
There are just four files,
/usr/local/bin/elinks
/usr/lib/libjs.so
/usr/lib/libjs.so.1
/root/.elinks/elinks.conf

Copy those files into the correct destinations, then run elinks like this:

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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 09:23 Post subject:

Thanks Barry, I'll give it a try.

I have fast cable connection. I set Firefox / Mozilla to load images only from the orginating server. The reason why is because it cuts 90% of the advertising out of the loop as most ads come from remote servers.

Elinks is the most incredibly mouse-enabled console application I've ever seen.
Even has right-click popup menu.

It doesn't always seem to work, but images are supposed to have some text, I think "img" and you click on it to view the image.
Elinks looks in /etc/mailcap for file associations, that which application to run for a file type. -- starts mtPaint for images.
-- probably better to have something more basic, like xli image viewer, or mtPaint in view-only mode (no menu). Specific file associations can be specified somewhere... dunno where, maybe in /root/.elinks/elinks.conf.

Note, as Puppy doesn't have gpm support, if you run Elinks without X then you have to drive it totally from the keyboard.

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